Welcome in your new life as an NCP

Welcome in your new life as an NCP

Informing NCPs about their role and the expected activities within the Horizon Europe programme. Focus also on synergies and connections with the main stakeholders.

The baseline of the course is the “Minimum standards and Guiding principles for setting up systems of National Contact Points”. This document includes the support services that NCPs should guarantee for ensuring that Horizon Europe becomes accessible to all potential users.

The entire course focuses on the following elements of the NCP life:

  • main communication channels and the strategy to adopt to inform clients about the funding opportunities
  • production of factsheets about the main NCP activities: information, assistance and training
  • to provide essential information for events organization (info days, workshop, webinar, M&E...)
  • to advise on collaboration with stakeholders of the NCP systems: EEN networks, European Commission, NCP Networks, relevant EU platforms for cooperation.

Welcome to your new role as Partner Country NCP

Welcome to your new role as Partner Country NCP

This course has the aim of informing EU Partner Countries NCPs about their role within the Horizon Europe programme and the expected activities that will be required of them. The course will provide and explain the minimum standards and guiding principles for setting up systems of National Contact Points, and it will outline the main support services that EU Partner Countries NCPs should guarantee to their clients to ensure that Horizon Europe becomes accessible to all potential users. The course also covers fundamental elements of the NCP life, such as main communication channels, the means to provide essential information for events organization and cooperation with stakeholders of the NCP systems.

Quick course through the tools of the Funding and Tenders Portal

Quick course through the tools of the Funding and Tenders Portal

The course aims to briefly present the digital tools that National Contact Points can use in the framework of their duties. The course presents the use of the Funding and Tenders portal in terms of searching for new funding opportunities, identifying partners, finding sources of support and submitting proposals. The Horizon Dashboard and the Funding and Tenders portal are also demonstrated as tools through which National Contact Points can find information on their country's participation in previous FPs.